Friday, December 9, 2016

Improving browser technology allows users to enter a virtual world directly from the browser. This capability will eliminate several barriers to entry for virtual worlds and offer immediate gratification for people interested in exploring virtual worlds and interacting with the people there.

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Water Haven, Second Life – The 2016 Edition of Seanchai Library's annual celebration of English literary giant Charles Dickens, The Dickens Project, will open in Second Life on Saturday, December 10th with over 20 hours of live events of all kinds, spanning eight days, to benefit Team Diabetes in Second Life.

This year's Project is sponsored by Kultivate Magazine and will take place on Kultivate's headquarter region, Water Haven.

Team Diabetes of Second Life is proud
to present for the second year in a row, the 2016 Winter Showcase and Art Show!
This event will take place from December 8 to December 18 and will include ten
days of live djs, performers, tribute concerts, 2D & 3D art; contests, two
hunts, photos with Santa, ice skating, ice fishing, fundraising and more!

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

What is a library in a virtual world? Perhaps a place to help people find information on the internet. Or to find communities where they can get information. Or perhaps to find out how they can learn on their own. Metaverse Libraries group is organizing to explore the possibilities.

The Virtual Community Resources Network

Purpose of Metaverse Libraries

To connect virtual world communities for learning (librarians, educators and students- example VCARA and other groups)

To explore what a virtual world library is or what it could be.in 5/10 years.

Commercial grids using OpenSim have good reason to promote their virtual worlds to the public. Videos are easily seen by anyone with a browser. People already in virtual worlds can see what commercial grids can offer. And people wondering about virtual worlds can see what we do in virtual worlds.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Promotion can become spam. More easily, it can become wasted effort. Look for ways to spread your promotion. But just because you see the same announcement several times, that does not mean people not following virtual worlds are seeing that. And those are the people we want to get the word to.

I see lots of hypergrid notices. I often see the same event promoted 3 or 4 times.

It is not spam to me. I like to see those notices.

The reason I see those notices is that I ask for notices in lots of G+ communities.

I usually open one of these notices and pass it on to my profile stream.

And from my profile stream maybe to elsewhere, preferably in the outworld.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

In virtual worlds, you don't just play games. You can build games to suit you. Here is a report on game builder software that supports many common features of combat games: health and healing, morality, fighting, etc. And you can play the game by yourself or with your friends. You can modify the theme--make it educational, if you want.